This is one of the largest projects in the world at the moment. It's impossible to comprehend the sheer scale of this (and some other ones of simiar scale in China like Baetan in GZ or Binhai in TJ) development. It's bigger...

(Reuters) - China said on Friday it will experiment with service sector reforms in a new business zone offering freer currency movements and Hong Kong professional standards, building the sort of test bed that turned the country into a manufacturing powerhouse.

Qianhai is still an almost completely empty strip of land.

The Qianhai project will be developed over the next eight years like that.

Another five buildings are slated to join Shenzhen's dense skyline as details about a new mixed-use complex have been released by Chicago-based Goettsch Partners and Hong Kong's Lead 8. Their 320,000-square-metre project in the Qianhai district would see a five-parcel site — including two Class A office towers — developed by Horoy Qianhai International Holdings Limited.